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BREAKING NEWS: Emotionless Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz is sentenced to life in prison without parole as disgusted parents weep and beg that he's murdered behind bars
Daily Mail UK ^ | November 2, 2022 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 11/02/2022 2:28:40 PM PDT by Morgana

Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after being spared the death penalty by three merciful jurors last month.

Cruz, 24, was emotionless in court on Wednesday as the parents and siblings of his victims wept all around him.

Many of those parents spoke today to blast the defense team who defended Cruz for their 'offensive' behavior in court and to beg the judge to put Cruz in general population. Some called for other inmates to 'exercise the judgement that the court can't' and kill Cruz in custody.

Judge Elizabeth Scherer thanked the parents for being 'strong and patient' throughout the sentencing phase of the trial before handing down the term.

She was powerless under the law and could only impose a maximum term of life in prison.

Scherer froze Cruz's commissary until restitution is paid, meaning he cannot benefit from any money donated to his prison account.

Cruz had been facing execution, which the victims families wanted, but a lone, hold-out juror decided against it.

They persuaded two others jurors to vote against executing him - a decision that horrified the families, many of whom had been told not to show their emotions throughout the trial.

On Wednesday, some of told of their hope that Cruz will be murdered in jail.

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To: Morgana

Five weeks tops before he gets a date with the coroner.


41 posted on 11/02/2022 3:26:34 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Morgana

When the system breaks down and there is no money to pay to run the prisons then all these people will be let go.


42 posted on 11/02/2022 3:31:35 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Morgana

he’ll be the little bitch of his ward


43 posted on 11/02/2022 3:40:47 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Morgana

Dealing with Cruz is only a small part of the larger problem, which is nationwide.

This book, co-written by a father of one of those killed, lays out why.

Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Meadow-Died-Policies-Parkland/dp/1642932191


44 posted on 11/02/2022 3:43:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Morgana

“””Emotionless Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz is sentenced to life in prison without parole”””


Cruz was emotionless because he is being given major medications by the jail doctors.

Whether the Florida Prison System continues to give him brain numbing medications remains to be seen.


45 posted on 11/02/2022 3:57:27 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: xp38

“””Question. If you were a member of one of victim families would you be plotting revenge?”””


The comments from Joaquin Oliver’s father certainly implied that he had the connections to take out Cruz while he is in prison.


46 posted on 11/02/2022 4:00:56 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Morgana

“””I’m backing up that juror and really he did everyone in there a favor.”””


I agree on two basis:

1. It takes upwards of 20 years to finally execute a killer.

2. With a life sentence there is no future appeal. Thus, locking out the public defenders from getting money from the Florida taxpayers to make those appeals.


47 posted on 11/02/2022 4:03:29 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Perhaps the term these days is “Epsteined”:


48 posted on 11/02/2022 4:19:27 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Morgana

The victims need to make it known that they’ll make sure the murderer(s) have unlimited commissary money at the prison for the next 5 years. That should do it.


49 posted on 11/02/2022 4:19:56 PM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: muir_redwoods

How long did Dahmer last?


50 posted on 11/02/2022 4:20:56 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Morgana

Not to worry. He will be accidentally hurt beyond repair.


51 posted on 11/02/2022 4:30:47 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Walk In The Rain So Nobody Can See My Tears)
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To: Morgana

Throw him with the general population. He will make a good wife.


52 posted on 11/02/2022 4:41:46 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Morgana

Richard Speck is the reason why you don’t give people life sentences. He was the person that killed a bunch of nurses up in the Boston area.

He went to prison, he liked prison sex, he had hormones to grow titty, he got all the drugs he wanted, and all the sex that he needed and he absolutely loved it.


53 posted on 11/02/2022 5:03:28 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Clutch Martin
IIRC it was in the Chicago area.....

this case.....well, its just that smart mouthed ass defense attorneys will use this case as an example of why their clients shouldn't get the DP...

"if he killed 17 people and he only got life then my client should only get life for killing 10 people"

54 posted on 11/02/2022 5:07:02 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Morgana

All of what you said could have happened with a verdict deserving the death penalty.

And it would have been better if he knew he was going into that cell and would never leave alive.

And if that sentence were to be carried out in a year or two, all the better.

As others have said, if this isn’t a case deserving the death penalty, then there is no true punishment for capital crimes. And if that is the case, yes, it sounds like jury nullification from some simp leftist.


55 posted on 11/02/2022 5:19:27 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare to survive.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Yes. He is emotionless. That is almost the defining characteristic of a psychopath.


56 posted on 11/02/2022 5:23:34 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe>i*)
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To: muir_redwoods

I certainly wish you were correct.

Unfortunately, history dictates that I should take the over.

Mark me down for $20.

When he is still alive in 6 weeks I’ll find someone in the same general population wing and add money to their books.

Law in the courts, justice in the yard.

$remind.me.in.6.weeks


57 posted on 11/02/2022 5:30:52 PM PDT by Oil Object Insp
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To: Joe 6-pack

I like the way you think.


58 posted on 11/02/2022 5:33:45 PM PDT by Oil Object Insp
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To: xp38

Too long.

much too long.


59 posted on 11/02/2022 5:34:31 PM PDT by Oil Object Insp
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To: Morgana

If Cruz is in the GP, his days are numbered.

Maybe a year tops.

5.56mm


60 posted on 11/02/2022 5:35:56 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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